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  • Re: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

    From Joy Beeson@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Jul 10 11:35:11 2025
    On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 23:55:53 +0100, Robert Carnegie
    <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

    Also, "nurse" used not to imply having education
    in medical practices.

    Hence the expression "trained nurse", followed by
    "Registered Nurse" and "Licensed Practical Nurse". There
    was another kind, which I have now forgotten.

    There used to be a Red Cross course called "home nursing".

    I think I had more to say, but I just fell asleep. But I'm
    going to sleep in my own bed.

    Kept wanting to ask the nurses (several varieties, all
    wearing the same scrub suits, including the housekeeping
    staff) silly questions such as "are student nurses still
    forbidden to run." Which came to me as I was "nurse
    walking" to the car for something.

    Ah, I think the root meaning of "nurse" is the kind rich
    people hired to take care of small children.


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  • From Bobbie Sellers@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Jul 10 15:07:58 2025
    Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com



    On 7/9/25 18:35, Joy Beeson wrote:
    On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 23:55:53 +0100, Robert Carnegie
    <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

    Also, "nurse" used not to imply having education
    in medical practices.

    Hence the expression "trained nurse", followed by
    "Registered Nurse" and "Licensed Practical Nurse". There
    was another kind, which I have now forgotten.

    There used to be a Red Cross course called "home nursing".

    I think I had more to say, but I just fell asleep. But I'm
    going to sleep in my own bed.

    Kept wanting to ask the nurses (several varieties, all
    wearing the same scrub suits, including the housekeeping
    staff) silly questions such as "are student nurses still
    forbidden to run." Which came to me as I was "nurse
    walking" to the car for something.

    Ah, I think the root meaning of "nurse" is the kind rich
    people hired to take care of small children.


    No. The original were nursing mothers with enough milk for the
    Mistress's child. You are thinking of other positions with slightly
    older children.
    I am trained in among other things, Licensed Vocational Nursing.
    I do my best to avoid nursing due to my own health problems.

    bliss


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